Explorers Room with Flash Strap:
Playlist
from August 17, 2017

This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

Thu. 8/17/17 7:17pm
Flash Strap:
Listener James! Great to have you in the room!

Thu. 8/17/17 7:20pm
Flash Strap:
the theme of the show obviously is women & electronic music, but there's actually an almost unbroken string of power couples tonight. Priscilla & her husband Barton tend to work together, and this is on an album credited to both of them, but I think this track is all her. That's her above, 2nd from left

Thu. 8/17/17 7:51pm
Little Danny:
Ohhhh yes. The first 'Lab record I ever bought and still my fave. One of these evenings I'll roll out for "Jenny Ondioline."

Thu. 8/17/17 7:53pm
Flash Strap:
It's sort of sad you guys but I never could get into Stereolab. Fortunately, I have a love of Broadcast to ease the loss

Thu. 8/17/17 7:55pm
Little Danny:
Flash, I totally understand your ambivalence about focusing on the work, apart, of women in this context. To me at least it's clear that you're not ghettoizing or diminishing anything

Thu. 8/17/17 7:56pm
hyde:
fine. you are not allowed to join our Stereolab fan club. it came with stickers!

Thu. 8/17/17 8:03pm
hyde:
supposedly Bravo did a one hour doc on Paul Bley in the late 90's co-produced with Arte. (which is amusing/sad given what Bravo is now). as far as i know, you can't find it anywhere.

Thu. 8/17/17 8:03pm
Flash Strap:
yeah they were pretty intense collaborators in the late 60s/early 70's, married for a time. I think she pretty much wrote all his stuff from '64 on as well

Thu. 8/17/17 8:05pm
Flash Strap:
someone should do a doc just on this period, the Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show period

Speaking of da ladies, any Laurie Spiegel on deck for tonight? Not sure if one of those pics is her. Or Wendy Carlos?

Thu. 8/17/17 8:19pm
doctorjazz:
Could be, I searched Bley and Peacock together, didn't look more. Sick of NPR depressing news, going to keep the show on with the phone app. No more posting, though...

Thu. 8/17/17 8:21pm
Flash Strap:
Mr. Fab! always so good to see you friend. No Laurie or Wendy tonight, but I'll probably get into both of them next week, when we'll do more astral traveling. This'll be a multi-show series. Love Laurie Spiegel SO MUCH

Thu. 8/17/17 8:26pm
Flash Strap:
It's so great how she runs her voice through a moog, just turning it up in the mix until unintelligibility

Thu. 8/17/17 8:28pm
Flash Strap:
after this, she took a 6-year hiatus. when she cam back, she was still devoted to pushing the songform to its edges but there's not so much in the way of synthesizers, so we'll just hear one track from her next album before we move on. That track: IS GOOD

Thu. 8/17/17 8:51pm
hyde:
huh, going back a few weeks but i'm packing (don't ask, my life is a hideous nightmare) and i just realized i have a copy of Pauper Brawler and Slanderer by Amos Tutuola that i never read. which i guess is why i brought it four years ago, though did i read it in the interim? well, um, nope. but it's going with me to the new place. maybe this time.

Thu. 8/17/17 8:53pm
Flash Strap:
tell me you are not moving again Hyde, I'm dying at the thought

Thu. 8/17/17 8:57pm
hyde:
sigh. it's true. had to get a month-to-month here in upstate NY as i can't seem to get a job in Boston where the gf lives and did not want to renew the lease on this crap cabin at a 12.5% rent markup. hope to get this all cleared up before winter and go back to Mass. if we get to November and i evince increasingly erratic behavior, you'll all know why.

Thu. 8/17/17 8:59pm
northguineahills:
Flash said "something Peacock", and he already mentioned Annette, so, the only other Peacock musician I can think of is Gary, (which is why Annette got that last name).

Thu. 8/17/17 9:00pm
geezerette:
Damn! Best of luck,Hyde! Just persist.

Thu. 8/17/17 9:01pm
Flash Strap:
Godspeed Hyde, that sucks. I wish the best for you in this wicked world, may we never have to move again unless we want to, none of us

Oh, indeed NGH, sorry to mis-take you

Thu. 8/17/17 9:01pm
northguineahills:
@hyde: at least you didn't spend 9 months couch surfing w/ family members and friends in FL. (I should have bailed out of nyc almost 3 years after my last real job before I ran out of my money) At least I'm employed now.

Thu. 8/17/17 9:15pm
northguineahills:
I always group United States of America w/ White Noise, similar sound, and similar time period.

Back in 1999, a friend of mine found 30 United States of America cassettes at a Big Lots in FL. He bought them all for his record store, which is where I got my cassette (before I found an LP version).

Jacksonville is awful (the people), naturally beautifully, but awful. You'd think a town that size would have more going on. Sure there are a tiny handful of people trying to make things happen, but it seems like a loosing battle.

Thu. 8/17/17 9:17pm
Flash Strap:
@ngh, yeah my grandparents live there, and that's pretty much always been my impression. Florida's just a rough place to live and have a soul in, I think

CRAZY to imagine those tapes, on tape, at a Big Lots

Thu. 8/17/17 9:18pm
northguineahills:
Gainesville is an island of culture adrift in a sea of insanity.

Thu. 8/17/17 9:21pm
doctorjazz:
Great sounds!

Thu. 8/17/17 9:21pm
hyde:
@ngh i dunno if you remember, but i got offered a job in Gainesville at the same time as i got offered my current NY gig. would have taken it if it hadn't been so far from my gf. when i went there i thought that the goeography and natural areas were really kind of cool, but for a guy who grew up in New England it all seemed really flat!

Thu. 8/17/17 9:47pm
quinn:
thanks for the show, missed it the past few weeks!

Thu. 8/17/17 9:47pm
northguineahills:
Gainesville was supposed to have a march this weekend by whats-his-nazi-face-I-refuse-to-commit-to-memory but The City of Gainesville denied the permit and the University denied his permit to give a 'lecture'.

Thu. 8/17/17 9:55pm
northguineahills:
LD: I will duck out to tend to some business, but I'll be back before the end.

Thu. 8/17/17 9:56pm
Flash Strap:
I don't think it is, but I didn't see the movie it's a soundtrack to, so I'm not sure. Actually, I haven't heard that record yet... is Trish on it, or is it totally post-Trish?